Ash trays



June 14, 1955 P. AGHNIDES 2,710,611

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INVENTOR ELIE P. AGHN/DES WW$M ATTORNEYS United States Patent 0 ASH TRAYS Elie P. Aghnides, New York, N. Y.

Application September 7, 1950, Serial No. 183,542

4 Claims. (Cl. 131-235) This invention relates to ash trays, and more particularly, it relates to the construction of an improved ash tray having means for extinguishing a cigarette or cigar.

In the prior art, there are ash trays in which two complementary parts form a series of small cavities into which cigarette butts may be placed. Any cigarette butts placed in such cavities are extinguished due to lack and improved form of ash tray which may be easily and cheaply manufactured.

Another object of the invention is to provide an ash tray which may be readily molded and which will have numerous advantages as herein described.

Another object of the invention is to provide an ash tray formed of separate parts which, when combined,

define a large number of cigarette-extinguishing cavities.

The present ash tray is provided with a large number of deep cigarette-extinguishing cavities around a central cavity. The smoker does not ordinarily crush his cigarette against the bottom of the present ash tray but merely drops the cigarette butt into one of the small cavities where it is extinguished due to lack of air. Hence, stain, tar, etc. is greatly reduced. There must be one cavity for each cigarette butt, and in order to provide this large number of cavities the bowl has two cylindrical walls between which may be placed a removable insert. This removable insert has a large number of indents in its inner and outer side walls so that there will be at least two rows of cigarette-extinguishing cavities. The cavities are placed very close together so that there will be a large number of them. In order to clean the ash tray it is merely necessary to remove the insert and to clean the indents on either side of the same; also the main bowl may be cleaned when the insert is removed.

In the drawings:

Figure l is a top view of the preferred form of the invention.

Figure 2 is a sectional view taken along line 2-2 of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a fragmentary top view of a modified form of the invention.

Figure 4 is a fragmentary sectional view taken along line 44 of Figure 3.

In Figures 1 and 2 the main portion 40 of the ash tray comprises two integrally formed coaxial cylinders 41 and 42, these being the outer and inner cylinders respectively. The space within cylinder 42 is used for ash reception, while that between the walls of cylinders 41 and 42 may be converted into a plurality of extinguishing cavities as will be described.

The inner wall of cylinder 41 has symmetrically disice posed vertical webs 43 of relatively thick cross section, separated by smooth curved portions 45. The outer wall of cylinder 42 also has a plurality of webs 44 separated by smooth curved portions 46. Inasmuch as cylinders 41 and 42 are integrally constructed, and further, inasmuch as the space between the walls of the two cylinders is relatively large, the webbings 43 and 44 are separated by a fixed, relatively large distance. Within the cavity between the two cylinders is placed a ring 47 having webs 48 and 49 on each side thereof, separated respectively by smooth curved portions 50 and 51. The webs 49 and surfaces 51 are complementary respectively to webs 44 and surfaces 46, while the webs 43 and surfaces 50 are complementary respectively to webs 43 and surfaces 45. Therefore, if ring 47 is placed within the cavity, a double row of elongated extinguishing cavities results, when the ring is properly aligned with the webs of cylinders 41 and 42. This alignment is effected by a tongue 19 in the ring 47 and a recess 21 in the opposing cylinder. The cigarette rest is composed of three complementary portions 52, 53, and 54.

A modification of this webbed ring construction is shown in Figures 3 and 4. In this form of my invention the surfaces of integral cylinders 41 and 42 have no webs, and the ring 47 placed within the cavity between the walls of cylinders 41 and 42 has partial webs 55 and 56 on each side thereof, these webs being of sufficient radial dimension to extend across the cavity. The webs 55 and 56 extend only part way down into the cavity and hence while they guide the cigarette into the cavity they are not stained by the smouldering cigarette butt.

The ash tray itself, and the component parts thereof, may be manufactured of metal, glass, plastic material, or any other material having suflicient structural strength and heat resistant properties.

Having thus described my invention, I claim to have invented the following:

1. An ash tray comprising two superposed parts, the lower of said parts including an outer substantially vertical wall and an inner substantially vertical wall in predetermined fixed relation to said outer wall, said outer and inner walls being formed integrally with a substantially horizontal bottom, the combination of outer wall,

, inner wall, and bottom defining an annular cavity for the reception of cigarette butts between said outer and inner wall and a central cavity for the reception of ashes and the upper of said superposed parts comprising an annular ring having a plurality of webs on each side thereof removably placed within said annular cavity to divide said cavity into a plurality of cavities, a first group of webs being symmetrically disposed along the inner surface of said outer wall, and a second group of webs being symmetrically disposed along the outer surface of said inner wall.

2. An ash tray comprising receptacle means having two endless spaced facing walls one of which is inside of the other, and an element adapted to fit snugly between and having a wall facing each of said walls, said element having indents in its facing walls which are complementary to said two endless walls, the indents forming cigarette extinguishing cavities between the element and the two endless walls.

3. An ash tray comprising three concentric coaxial circular elements having spaced endless facing walls and the outer one of which has a bottom, the middle circular element having projections on both sides thereof thereby dividing the spaces between it and the facing walls of the other two elements into a plurality of cavities of cross-section large enough to receive a cigarette and small enough to limit the supply of air and thereby rapidly extinguish a cigarette.

4. An ash tray comprising means having two endless 2,175,956 Crawford Oct. 19, 1939 spaced walls which face each other with one inside of 2,220,784 Gee Nov. 5, 1940 the other, and an element adapted to fit snugly between 2,227,354 Kushiner Dec. 31, 1940 and having a wall facing each of said walls, at least some FOREIGN PATENTS of the facing walls having indents formlng elongated cavities between said element and the inner endless wall 4225131 Great f f Jam 11, 1935 and additional elongated cavities between the element 629,810 Great Brltam Sept-28,1949 and the outer endless wall, said cavities being larger than 669,350 France 1930 the diameter of a cigarette and small enough to quickly extinguish a burning cigarette dropped therein. 1

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,427,807 Halbleib Sept. 5, 1922 15 1,888,105 Armstrong Nov. 15, 1932 

